<snip>The happy discovery was that even though the TiVo documentation said that only wired ethernet or MoCa would permit transferring shows from our old TiVoHD to the new Roamio, they seem to transfer fine via wireless.<snip>

All cablecards are one-way (or at least that's how they're used in tivos, you need a tuning adapter for the reverse channel communication)... do you mean they sent you a single-stream card? I'm surprised they still have any.

I'm not at home so I can't check right now, but the tech said that was why they couldn't get the Tuning adapter to stop blinking.

Is there something I can look at on the cablecard when I get home to verify if it's the right kind I needed?

I'm not at home so I can't check right now, but the tech said that was why they couldn't get the Tuning adapter to stop blinking.

Is there something I can look at on the cablecard when I get home to verify if it's the right kind I needed?

I can't remember off the top of my head, but in the cablecard diag screens there should be helpful words like "authorized" and large numbers of EMMs and things like that received.
Cablecards are capable of sending diagnostics back to the cableco, but in TiVos, there is no signal path for them, so the tech is dependent on you reading information out of the diag screens.

If you're on time warner, just call their national support line and they'll get you up and running: 866-606-5889 is the number I last used.

Then jump back a page in this thread and help me with my problem :-)

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I can't remember off the top of my head, but in the cablecard diag screens there should be helpful words like "authorized" and large numbers of EMMs and things like that received.
Cablecards are capable of sending diagnostics back to the cableco, but in TiVos, there is no signal path for them, so the tech is dependent on you reading information out of the diag screens.

If you're on time warner, just call their national support line and they'll get you up and running: 866-606-5889 is the number I last used.

Thanks for the lead on the cablecard support line - they helped me last night. Determined we had the right cablecard - the TA is bad. So I have another cablecard still coming (that they sent the other day) but have to wait for a new TA. I was able to find out that the TAs aren't "linked" to the cablecard, so we were able to swap our "good" TA from the TiVoHD to the new Roamio so at least we could take advantage of all the tuners on that to record more. When the replacement TA comes, we'll put that on the old TiVoHD.

Anyone with 20.4.1 software update seeing sluggishness when transferring videos to your unit(s)? Since the update both MRV and pyTivo TTCB transfers to my Roamio Pro with 20.4.1 make the unit very sluggish (about as bad or worse than Elite units) during the transfer. I'm using pyTivo with ts=on setting and getting transfers speeds in the range of 70-90 Mbps. I've tried pulling both H.264 and mpeg2 video formats (pyTivo with ts=on is only remuxing to TS container while leaving audio + video alone).

Anyone with 20.4.1 software update seeing sluggishness when transferring videos to your unit(s)? Since the update both MRV and pyTivo TTCB transfers to my Roamio Pro with 20.4.1 make the unit very sluggish (about as bad or worse than Elite units) during the transfer. I'm using pyTivo with ts=on setting and getting transfers speeds in the range of 70-90 Mbps. I've tried pulling both H.264 and mpeg2 video formats (pyTivo with ts=on is only remuxing to TS container while leaving audio + video alone).

Definitely seeing this, including strobing during recording playback. This is while playing back any recording, not just the one being transferred. The menus are noticeably slower. Both of these problems only occur during the actual transfer.

Definitely seeing this, including strobing during recording playback. This is while playing back any recording, not just the one being transferred. The menus are noticeably slower. Both of these problems only occur during the actual transfer.

Looks like fundamental issue is too many CPU cycles dedicated to transfers to the point it's causing skipped frames during playback of any recording. I noticed it slightly with previous versions, but now it's much worse.

While transfers may be slightly faster, they were plenty fast before. Overall, it is the opposite of an improvement.

Sorta difficult to do when the transfer is initiated from the TiVo.

Even if possible, it would more likely exacerbate the problem rather than mitigate it.

I agree with how you see it, and from moyekj's perspective.

I think all the posts I've seen noting the slowdowns in response time, and issues while streaming (or transferring), which specify a Roamio model, have been the Plus/Pro.

They have gigabit ethernet. The base model Roamio does not.

Has anybody tried digging out some 100Mbit switches to throttle transfers and see if a gigabit Roamio that auto-negotiates to 100Mbit, is impacted less?

Nobody should have to do so (TiVo should have caught the issue). But, I think it might help those who are looking for pitchforks and torches.

I'm a bit peeved that the "pause" on the rollout was resumed once the weekend was over (with the pause being announced right before the weekend). IIRC, TiVo generally doesn't roll updates on Fridays or weekends, so just how much of a "pause" outside the norm was there?

I feel if they truly put it on "pause", outside of normal parameters, they should have taken more time before resuming.

PyTiVo has stopped working for us - getting a message on the Tivo when we try and go in to view programs to transfer that the files are unavailable. On the PC that is running PyTivo the directories are available.

This isn't really a pyTivo issue, except insofar as it should carry on processing in the face of bad timestamps (and I already had two mods for that, but apparently I need another); and, I can make it do that. But that still won't give you the correct dates.

The 'R' drive letter suggests that this is a network mount. You probably should be running pyTivo on that system, instead. Failing that, you need to figure out why the mtime doesn't seem to be propagating from the file server to the pyTivo host. I have no idea.

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This isn't really a pyTivo issue, except insofar as it should carry on processing in the face of bad timestamps (and I already had two mods for that, but apparently I need another); and, I can make it do that. But that still won't give you the correct dates.

The 'R' drive letter suggests that this is a network mount. You probably should be running pyTivo on that system, instead. Failing that, you need to figure out why the mtime doesn't seem to be propagating from the file server to the pyTivo host. I have no idea.

The "R" drive is an NAS. We had been running this with zero problems for close to 5 years now prior to our upgrade to a Roamio Plus within the last two weeks....

I know the version of PyTiVo I have running is an older one - I am reluctant to upgrade just because I always had trouble getting it running. Would an upgrade to the current version possibly solve this???

This isn't really a pyTivo issue, except insofar as it should carry on processing in the face of bad timestamps (and I already had two mods for that, but apparently I need another); and, I can make it do that.

Did this now.

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But that still won't give you the correct dates. ... you need to figure out why the mtime doesn't seem to be propagating from the file server to the pyTivo host.

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Anyone notice the videos they pushed previously no longer play after the latest OS update? Every single video I pushed in the past gives me a generic error about the recording failing. This is on my Roamio Pro.

hi guys im new to this forum, though i have been using the pytivo for over a year now with no problems, till today.... i keep getting similar messages as Rassi, my Movie folder in the TIVO MYSHOWS tab doesnt disappear unless i unplug my tivo ethernet cable. im gonna include a SS of the message since its not letting me copy and paste it... thanks to anyone who can help, pytivo was working fine 2 days ago and i did not edit or make any changes on my PC.... wow i cant post it because i need a post count of 5 or greater and mine is 0 sorry for the next 3 posts